Is gaia-init safe to install?

Yes — gaia-init is safe to install, with something worth knowing. Sonnet 5 read every file gaia-init ships from gaia-react/gaia on 7 September 2026 and found nothing that acts against the person installing it; the static scan of its 26 rules grades it A.

Reviewed by Sonnet 5 on 7 September 2026 · a grade is what a scan and a reading found, not a guarantee · how this works

What the reviewer found

gaia-init project-init command: curl|sh installs the official uv tool from astral.sh (the vendor's own domain, explicitly called out as a false positive in review policy), and rm -rf .agents/skills/react-doctor is scoped cleanup of a specific bundled-extras directory the installer just wrote. It does install several dev tools (react-doctor, playwright-cli, Serena MCP, two Claude plugin marketplaces) so the installer should know what's landing on their machine, but nothing is exfiltrated or hidden.

What was read

The file as it ships in gaia-react/gaia:

What the static scan said

The scan flagged 3things. The reviewer kept 1 and dismissed 2 as false.

How this review was made

Sonnet 5 read the files above on 7 September 2026 and answered three questions: is it dangerous to whoever installs it, is each scanner finding real, and what should the installer know. The verdict is bound to the file's hash; when the file changes, it is scanned afresh and reviewed again. A script that changes while the definition does not is not re-reviewed — that is a known gap. How the scan and the review work.

Produced by agentmods.dev · Sonnet 5 · 7 September 2026

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